Russia's Baltic Shipyard has demonstrated the use of a collaborative robot and a welding robot with machine vision, which it says will be an important part of the plant's modernisation programme.

Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev says that the first two new 600 MW units at the second phase of the Kola Nuclear Power Plant will be built between 2027 to 2037.

Tomsk Polytechnic University has been commissioned by Rosatom's fuel division TVEL to create an innovative X-ray machine designed for non-destructive testing of containers with radioactive waste.

Russia's nuclear regulator Rostekhnadzor has issued an operating licence to the Kalinin nuclear power plant's unit 1 to June 2044.

The agreement creates a legal basis for cooperation between Russia and Mali and follows on from a roadmap for developing ties on peaceful uses of nuclear energy signed last year.

A roadmap has been agreed aiming to select a site, construct and commission two new VVER-1000 nuclear power units by 2035 in Russia's far eastern region of Primorsky Krai, which borders China and North Korea on the Pacific Coast.

Rosatom has signed an agreement with Uzbekistan's Uzatom Atomic Energy Agency to study a possible gigawatt-scale nuclear power plant featuring two or four VVER-1000 units.

Russia's Rosatom has been selected as the leader of an international consortium to build Kazakhstan's first planned nuclear power plant - with China being lined up to build a second one.

Rosatom says that its fifth generation nuclear fuel assemblies have been loaded into the VVER-1200 reactor core of Novovoronezh unit 6 as part of developments to involve VVER reactors in closing the nuclear fuel cycle.